A testosterone patch may help improve the sex lives of women who have had hysterectomies, new research shows. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, only included women who had had their ovaries and uterus removed. That drastically alters a woman’s production of sex hormones, which may affect …

NEW YORK – For the second month in a row, U.S. employee confidence fell to its lowest level in nearly two years, as Hurricanes Katrina (search) and Rita and high gas prices took a toll on personal finances, a survey from Hudson Highland Group Inc. (search) (HHGP) showed on Wednesday. …

WASHINGTON – Supporters of the Voting Rights Act (search) acknowledge they know no member of Congress who wants to scrap it. But with hearings beginning Tuesday, Congress is hardly their biggest concern. The House Judiciary Committee this week holds the first two of what could be more than a dozen …

NEW YORK – Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) said Tuesday it would add 11 new routes between the United States and Europe and the Middle East in 2006 in a bid to become the world’s largest transatlantic airline, despite its financial troubles. The move is part of a “transformation plan” …

If there was one thing we didn’t want to see the Wicked Witch of the West (search) do, it’s this. A Halloween display of a scarecrow witch nursing a green baby witch doll with her gourd breast is haunting Brattleboro, Vt., residents, according to the Boston Herald. “I would hope …

LOS ANGELES – Activists want Paramount Pictures (search) to take down billboards promoting the upcoming film “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (search),” claiming the advertisements promote gun violence. The billboards depict Curtis “50 Cent (search)” Jackson holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone in his right. One …

WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald (search) huddled with his legal team Thursday as two key White House aides awaited their fate in the CIA leak probe. A spokesman for the prosecutor said there would be no public announcements Thursday. The term of the grand jury that could bring indictments …

WASHINGTON – A prosecutor tried to persuade a grand jury that Rep. Tom DeLay (search) tacitly approved illegal use of campaign money and became angry when jurors decided against an indictment, according to two people directly familiar with the proceeding. “The mood was unpleasant,” one person said Wednesday, describing Travis …

WASHINGTON – A prominent consumer advocacy group is calling for the government to add the most serious of warnings to the labels of Viagra (search) and other impotence drugs, noting that some users have gone blind. Public Citizen (search) petitioned the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to add black-box warnings …

The approach of Hurricane Wilma (search) has forced MTV to postpone its Latin American music video awards ceremony (search), which had been scheduled for Mexico’s Playa del Carmen resort. Dulce Gordillo, MTV (search)’s Mexico spokeswoman, confirmed the postponement and said a new date for the show hadn’t been set. The …